Accept the film on its strange, brilliantly unnerving terms, and you'll find it slipping into your dreams. Any horror fan should be scrambling to see this as soon as they can.

| Original Score: A | Apr 3, 2024

Sator is an extremely slow-burning horror, full of truly frightening imagery and well-crafted jump scares, however the plot may not quite be interesting enough to hold the attention of a wider audience.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 6, 2023

The authentic nature and the intentional ambiguity of Sator leaves the viewer with the feeling they’ve witnessed something they shouldn’t have.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 22, 2023

Beyond any other aspect, Sator is visually staggering in a way that sticks with you.

| Sep 9, 2021

A genuinely unsettling film ... one that seems entirely disinterested in chasing modern horror trends. Graham has created something legitimately special here.

| Jun 6, 2021

This self-reverential exercise drowns in a deep melancholy and gets lost in the vision of bovine-like skulls risen from the dead.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 8, 2021

It's a film that you absorb, until it slithers around and engulfs you.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 27, 2021

Breathtaking slow-burn indie horror that isn't to be missed.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Mar 29, 2021

There's only confidence in the way director Jordan Graham ... presents both sides of [Sator, as a creature of grief or grief in the form of a creature.]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 15, 2021

Here's a shivery treat for horror connoisseurs more interested in mood and atmosphere than blood and guts.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 4, 2021

Profoundly, oppressively *creepy* in a way that puts far more lavish horror features to shame.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 2, 2021

[Sator] is an eerie and engrossing film that will evoke various emotions. Sator may not appeal to every horror (genre) fan given its slow pace. If you are willing to sit with it, however, it may surprise you.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 20, 2021

Slow and mysterious rural/domestic/folk horror from a new auteur to watch out for. Mesmerising stuff, with painstaking production and a chilling atmosphere.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 19, 2021

Through both theme and texture, Graham approximates the slow phobia of Ari Aster's Hereditary-the pervasive feeling that the dominos are tumbling and there is nothing that can be done about it.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 19, 2021

With Jordan Graham's Sator, he uses his lived experience to slowly build unease and dread until it consumes not only the central character but also viewers.

| Feb 19, 2021

It can't be ignored that Graham dropped every ounce of passion and care into this project. It creeps into your brain, into your heart, and grips onto each with a piercing tenacity. Sator is a tour de force, isolating and chilling on every level.

| Feb 17, 2021

If you go into it understanding that it takes its time and its horror is less about jump scares and more of a surreal unknowability, I think you'll get more out of it.

| Feb 17, 2021

Sator is more than a film; it's a gorgeous and haunting experience. No words can truly do justice to this film and what it feels like to watch it.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Feb 16, 2021

The film is a nightmare that lures you deeper and deeper into its dark recesses.

| Original Score: 77/100 | Feb 16, 2021

Sator is a strange outing, the work of a filmmaker skilled in a number of technical visual storytelling skills, using them to churn up some chillingly moody ambience.

| Feb 16, 2021